Winners of Annual Student Paper Competition 

2012
Jody Clauter, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee (First Place Winner)
Results and Comparisons of Petrographic and Energy Dispersion X-ray Fluorescence (ED XRF) Analyses of Late Woodland Ceramics from Southern Wisconsin

Andrew Upton, Michigan State University (Second Place Winner)
Preliminary Testing of the Efficacy of Shell Tempering as a Proto-Hominy Processor  

2011
Heather Walder, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Glass Trade Beads as Temporal Markers for the Contact Era of Wisconsin: Compositional Analysis Results 

2010
Alleen Betzenhauser, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Accessing the Mississippian Transition in the Southern American Bottom through an Interpretation of a Geophysical Survey 

2009
Elizabeth Conzelman, Southern Illinois University-Edwardsville
Analysis of Status Based on Faunal Remains from the 2008 East Palisade Excavations at Cahokia  

Maria Raviele, Michigan State University 
Exploring Quantification of Maize Microbotanical Densities through Experimental Residue Analysis

2008
Sarah Surface-Evans, Michigan State University
Seeing the Forest for the Trees: An Archaeological Site Inventory Project on Michigan State Forest Land

2007
Lacey Heflin, Southern Illinois University-Edwardsville
Faunal Analysis of the 2005 Stephenson House excavations in Madison County, Illinois: The analysis of Socioeconomic status in the Upland South cultural tradition

Susan Spencer, Indiana University-Bloomington
Cutmarks on crania at the late Mississippian Mann Site Cemetery, Posey County, Indiana 

2006
Rex Weeks, Arizona State University
Notes On the Pre-Contact Origin of the Midewiwin: A Review of Archaeological Evidence from the Upper Great Lakes

2005
Kelly Arnold, Southern Illinois University-Edwardsville
Southern Illinois Ceramic Figurines: A Temporal Investigation

Christine Boston, Southern Illinois University-Edwardsville 
Analysis of Skeletal Remains of the Emmons Site, Fulton County, Illinois